Architecture & Design Critic: Save Our Saarinen!
Not everybody is happy about the US Embassy building disappearing from Mayfair!
London based architecture and design critic Hugh Pearman writes:
Buildings acquire personality not only through their architecture, but through the events that they witness. In the case of Eero Saarinen’s American Embassy in Grosvenor Square, London, the two are inextricably intertwined.
Like it or loathe it, this building has enormous character, the expression of a subtle architectural intelligence. I know this: If we lose it, we will come to regret it.
Read the whole post at Gabion.
